"Help!!! Hair color" Topic

How can yellow and red hair colors get rigged? Closest yellow is Cav yellow and assorted horse browns and reds. Is there a fair way of home engineering these colors?

People don't have yellow hair

Paint the hair pale brown, dry brush with white or an off white.

Or paint the hair white or off white and wash with a pale brown.

Do the same for reds but use some shade of orange to dark brownish red

Thanks. There has been some yellow hair, tho(my sister's birth hair). just not as obvious as the paints. Hadn't considered starting with white.

Have a good day.

Depends on your scale. I do 6mm, so I go slightly more vivid on the hair colors. A very pale straw color for blondes and a brick red for "ginger nuts"

For blonde hair I use GW vomit brown, then a wash of scorched brown, highlight with vomit brown, then highlighted with a mix of white added in, might not be perfect but on 25/28mm figures it seems to work.

Many fake blondes today have yellow hair. They think it looks 'natural'!

I will echo HistoryPhd's suggestions. To me what makes the hair is the wash, usually dark brown or black.

I have to be honest, brown and black hair dominate my armies

For my Celts, I did use some reddish-brown hues to give some of the figs an individual flair

Matted with a few days' worth of sweat and road dust, any hair looks fairly dark, at least in contrast to the face…

all my troops have brown hair or black on my coloured troops that`s it. May paint an officer with different colour

See Kevin Dallimore articles or the painting books.

Every one gets brown hair. It's sooooo much easier.

Eric

For SYW it's GW Bestial Brown for the rank and file, white for the officers; It's just Bestial Brown for everyone for Napoleonics and AWI.

This is for 6mm by the way.

My technique: Use your favorite brown base color then highlight using same brown mixed with your light flesh highlight color – blends very well. This mixture also works well as 5 o'clock shadow

My technique: Use your favorite brown base color then highlight using same brown mixed with your light flesh highlight color – blends very well. This mixture also works well as 5o'clock shadow.

Try any yellow to tan color, then give it a wash of some type of brown. Washes work wonders on hair and fur.

15mm as silly as it is, I paint all the hair on my guys black, it is going to be shadowed anyway.

Cheers,

The Bandit

In 15mm it gets painted the same brown as the stock.

blonde hair, a fawn colour then wash with earth brown colour result

I had green hair for a brief while, back in the eighties….